Last week, my family welcomed to the world my second niece – baby No-Name Nhari 🙂 After a very difficult pregnancy in which she was mostly bed-ridden, my sister was too weak to push the 5.7lbs bundle of joy into the world. But thanks to vacuum suction, baby No-Name entered the world with no other …
day of disappointment
On this day one hundred and sixty-eight years ago, the founders of the Christian denomination to which I belong experienced what has come to be known as the Great Disappointment. All day and all night on the 22nd of October in 1844 they waited for Christ’s literal return…By noon of October 23, most had come …
learning to run
About a year ago, I got myself a case of runners’ knee. Well, at least that’s what I ascertained was the problem thanks to my google diagnostic skills. Do you know how many problems I’ve solved with google?! (Oh, and did you know that “?!” is an actual punctuation mark? It’s called an interrobang – …
Information craze
Around fifteen universities now offer courses for free online through a medium called Coursera. No, no, it’s legit – you can take Stanford, Michigan, Princeton, UPenn, Hopkins and many more university classes for free! It was while browsing the Duke University website that I learnt about this program because Duke participates in it as well. …
When are you an old maid?
After reflecting on my first post on being single, and listening to the feedback, I made some revisions to the NM singles section and figured it’d be good to follow up with more clarity. It’s as impossible to define the parameters of Never-Married/NM singles as it is to find two identical cultures. That’s because marriage …
Music
Music is a wonderful thing! And by that I mean it is a thing of wonder… When no words could express an emotion Chopin’s nocturne captures it effortlessly. The cascading notes whisper your true meaning And though no-one else understands, you feel understood. That’s because music is like capturing a feeling in a sound So …
what can I do?
I just watched a TED talk on slavery. There’s a part of me that wishes I hadn’t because now, I know, and now, I feel so helpless. More than 27million people enslaved in the world today…some sold into slavery for as little as $18. Sex and textile slavery are probably the most commonly known, but …
when I grow up…
One evening, on a drive back home from prayer meeting at church, my Dad asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. It was one of those precious moments one-on-one with your Dad which you never forget. And being a Daddy’s girl, it meant so much to me that he even cared …
about falling off bikes
Yep, it happened again! Fell off my bike… About this time, last year, I was halfway through my ride when my foot slipped from the pedal and into the front wheel, stalling the bike and tossing me over the handle bars. It was my first fall off a bike (I didn’t even fall when I …
on being single
A false alarm caused me to start preparing a presentation for a singles’ seminar this past month. As is usually the case when I prepare any presentation, it seemed the preparations benefited me more than they could have anyone else! The seminar didn’t end up happening, but I made so many discoveries that I have …